‘They’re Like Batman and Robin Gone Bad’: Obama Slams Georgia Senators up for Re-Election

Former President Barack Obama (D) is seizing on allegations of insider trading that have been leveled against two incumbent Republican senators in a traditionally red state.

Georgia Sens. David Perdue (R) and Kelly Loeffler (R) have been accused of using non-public information about COVID-19 to profit off of stock trades at the beginning of the outbreak.

Perdue and Loeffler are both running to keep their seats in what is shaping up to be a tough year for Republican incumbents.

Now, Obama is campaigning in Georgia in a bid to flip two seats in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator in 20 years. Speaking at a rally in Atlanta, on Monday, Obama said, “They downplayed the pandemic in public, and in private they’re trying to see if they can profit from it — both of them. Not just one of them … both of them.”

“They’re like Batman and Robin gone bad,” he continued. “It’s like the dynamic duo of doing wrong.”

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Earlier this year, the Justice Department opened an insider trader investigation into Loeffler, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), and James Inhofe (R-Okla.)

However, in May, the department ended its investigation into the senators — except Burr — without charges.

That investigation was opened after it was reported that the lawmakers sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock after they attended a closed-door briefing on the threat of the pandemic.